A Chrome extension that forces you to weed your browser tabs
Developer Charlie Gerard has transformed browser management into a digital garden, launching a Chrome extension that blankets neglected tabs in virtual vines. As you switch focus, the foliage creeps across your inactive pages, eventually locking out interaction until you manually prune the overgrowth to regain control of your workspace.
The mechanism relies on a user-defined timescale to determine how quickly the greenery spreads. Once a page exceeds a five percent overgrowth threshold, the extension disables clicking, text selection, and dragging. This forced interaction serves as a playful deterrent against hoarding dozens of open tabs that often clutter a browser without being used. By requiring a moment of digital maintenance to clear the vines, Gerard turns the mundane habit of closing tabs into a micro-game of virtual gardening.
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